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Si Fexit til Facebook!

Mange angrer nå på at mye av norsk offentlighet har endt opp på Facebook, en plattform som styres av et firma vi ikke liker, etter redaktørprinsipper vi ikke forstår. Nå må vi velge. Vi kan sitte her og prøve å få Facebook til å endre oppførselen sin. Eller vi kan innse at i møte med…

The world is Argentina: What Pope Francis can teach nonbelievers about goodness

When Pope Francis was bishop Bergoglio in Argentina, he would ask rich people who came to confession if they had given money to the poor. “Of course,” they would say. “But did you personally…

The world has stopped becoming more democratic

Report from Oslo Freedom Forum 2015.

Turkey today is neither free nor unfree, said writer Mustafa Akyol at this year’s Oslo Freedom Forum. They exist in that gray area of countries that are democratic on paper, but have a…